Mon.Dec 12, 2016

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The 7 Essentials of Successful Team Building Activities for Onboarding

Lever

Onboarding is a fundamental piece of the candidate transition process. Gone are the days when companies would simply welcome new hires with an orientation packet followed by a perfunctory tour of the office. In today’s fluid marketplace of knowledge workers, organizations that wish to not only recruit, but retain, top talent must ensure that new hires at all levels are thoroughly well-versed in the norms and expectations which define a particular workplace culture.

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6 Essential Elements Your Job Ads NEED to Include

Social Talent

Do your job ads attract the number and the quality of candidates you desire for your open roles? If you answered ‘yes’, then congratulations! You have cracked the art of writing effective job ads. No mean feat! But for those of you who feel like you could do with a little help in that department, we’ve drawn up a list of the six most essential elements each and every one of your job ads needs to contain in order to be successful: 1.

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10 Rules of Fight Club. Otherwise Known as the Christmas Party

FireFish Software

As a business owner, I totally understand how the Christmas Party can quickly turn into your worst nightmare! I mean, nothing could possible go wrong when you get a bunch of recruiters together that love to party…. With many years of Christmas partying under my belt, here are my 10 golden rules for a successful recruitment Christmas party….

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Teamwork counts: How To Set Up a Hiring Team For Success

SmartRecruiters

Thinking about making some great hires in 2017? Me too. Of course, as Head of Talent here at SmartRecruiters, I do have an edge – access to next-generation tools to streamline my recruiting and hiring processes. But technology alone won’t help if I’m not following some fundamental best practices for collaborative hiring. In my last post, “ Making The Right Hire: Our Best Practices Should Be Yours ,” I discussed a few of the best practices we published in our new whitepaper, “ Making the Be

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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9 Tips to Ensure You Run an Effective End of Year Performance Review

RecruitLoop

There’s plenty of advice out there for employees on preparing for a performance review. But employers need to be just as well prepared.

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The Pros and Cons of Open-Plan Offices

CareerBuilder

The workspace arrangement at your small business can have a major impact on office life. Many modern companies favor an “open-plan” environment of one large area of shared space that lacks distinct rooms. Though many believe open-plan offices promote productivity and collaboration, some believe they may do more damage than good. So before embracing this trend, take time to examine how such a design may help or hinder your company’s objectives.

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5 Things That’ll Prevent Recruiters Jumping Ship Next Year

Undercover Recruiter

There is a lot of movement in the jobs market (across the board) at the turn of each new year. It’s not too hard to understand why, either. People spend a whole year grafting away at their jobs, and want a new challenge with the new year. Specifically for third party recruiters, December is a fun but. View Article. 5 Things That’ll Prevent Recruiters Jumping Ship Next Year.

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54% of Employers Plan to Offer Holiday Bonuses in 2016

CareerBuilder

Just in time for the holidays, employers are rewarding their employees in a number of ways. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 54 percent of employers plan to give employees holiday bonuses this year – the same as 2015 – but 15 percent say the bonus will be greater than last year. In addition, 46 percent of employers plan to give their employees gifts this year – on par with last year, while 69 percent of employers say they will be throwing a holiday party for employees this year – up 3 pe

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How to STOP Using Only 10% of Your LinkedIn Recruiter License

Undercover Recruiter

We’ve been talking a lot lately about what recruitment leaders should stop doing in 2017; how they can STOP messing up their critical job adverts and START getting real, decent applicants, as well as how marketers need to STOP delivering tactics instead of strategy. A theme which links all of this together is my new acronym: FORMO. View Article.

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Your 2024 Annual Talent Acquisition Roadmap: Its Seasonal!

Recruiting is seasonal! Our popular Talent Acquisition Roadmap helps you master seasonal hiring like a boss. We break down key data on the ever-changing job market so you can take advantage of peak hiring times and ace recruiting even in slower seasons. Whether you need to scale up your team quickly or get creative in tighter times, this roadmap helps you understand the recruiting landscape.

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Your Fault: Don’t Blame Glassdoor for Your Crap Company Culture.

Snark Attack

There are few companies able to generate more mainstream media coverage than Glassdoor1, who has a long track record of using the massive amounts of proprietary data across their site to generate some analytics and insights into what’s really going on in the world of work. While employers may b h about the negative reviews (and […].

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Only the Beautiful Survive in Campus Recruiting

ConveyIQ

Looks matter in campus recruiting. A lot. It’s a fact all recruiting professionals know, but no one wants to admit. The recruiting process is highly judgmental, irrational, and unfair. But it’s not the RECRUITERS who care about looks. It’s the CANDIDATES. And they are judging the look and feel of your recruiting process. Times Have […]. The post Only the Beautiful Survive in Campus Recruiting appeared first on Take the Interview.

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10 Steps to Improve the Candidate Experience and Become the World’s Leading Brand*

HireRight

After a long and arduous interview process, you’ve found a great candidate. And now you’ve scheduled your star candidate’s background check. Now don’t tell anyone, but it’s at this critical moment in the hiring progression that you can dramatically improve your business’s already-stellar reputation and accelerate your on-boarding process by helping the candidate prepare for their background check.

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54% of Employers Plan to Offer Holiday Bonuses in 2016

CareerBuilder

Just in time for the holidays, employers are rewarding their employees in a number of ways. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, 54 percent of employers plan to give employees holiday bonuses this year – the same as 2015 – but 15 percent say the bonus will be greater than last year. In addition, 46 percent of employers plan to give their employees gifts this year – on par with last year, while 69 percent of employers say they will be throwing a holiday party for employees this year – up 3 pe

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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4 Social Recruiting Trends To Watch Out For In 2017

Jibe

For most of its existence, social media has been a taboo subject for recruiting. However, over the last couple of years we have seen social recruitment on the rise. As a matter of fact, some companies even require social media experience for their talent acquisition positions. The main reason for this changing of the guard has been the evolution of social media and those who use it.

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The Pros and Cons of Open-Plan Offices

CareerBuilder

The workspace arrangement at your small business can have a major impact on office life. Many modern companies favor an “open-plan” environment of one large area of shared space that lacks distinct rooms. Though many believe open-plan offices promote productivity and collaboration, some believe they may do more damage than good. So before embracing this trend, take time to examine how such a design may help or hinder your company’s objectives.

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5 Careers You Can Make as Health Science Graduate

Recruiting Blogs

A bachelor of health science degree is designed to move you towards a senior position in health care. But that can mean a lot of different jobs, depending on where your interest lies. Colleges offer a wide variety of Bachelor of Science (BS) or Bachelor of Arts (BA) degrees in health science. While BS degrees generally lean a bit more toward clinical health care and the BA involves studying more of the broader humanities subjects, there’s actually a good deal of overlap between the two.

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Employee Culture And Corporate Job Fit – Buzzwords Or Reality?

ExactHire Recruiting

Your employees are a valuable resource. They are the power behind your customer service, production, and revenue generation. They are also the ones who will have the most interaction with your customer base. Having a set of employees who act in a similar way to situations is the key to delivering a consistent experience for customers. One way to ensure a consistent customer service experience is to have a recruitment process that takes into consideration how well candidates may be able to succes

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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5 More Corporate Recruiting Problems Impacting Agency Success

Recruiting Blogs

If you are a recruiting agent, you think that you influence a hire. In reality, corporate teams marginalize your efforts. You are powerless in their world.unless you understand the world as they see it. . The more you understand the problems facing your internal corporate recruiting teams, the better you can position yourself as a problem solver and influencer.

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Employee Culture And Corporate Job Fit – Buzzwords Or Reality?

ExactHire Recruiting

Your employees are a valuable resource. They are the power behind your customer service, production, and revenue generation. They are also the ones who will have the most interaction with your customer base. Having a set of employees who act in a similar way to situations is the key to delivering a consistent experience for customers. One way to ensure a consistent customer service experience is to have a recruitment process that takes into consideration how well candidates may be able to succes

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3 Ways to Adapt Your Hiring Strategy When You Grow from a Small to a Mid-sized Business

Linkedin Talent Blog

If you’re a growing small business, you need to consider changing your hiring approach. I get it – hiring at a small company is tough. Successfully growing to 100 or 200 employees is certainly an accomplishment worth celebrating. But how will you get to the next 100 or 200 or 300 employees? Those small businesses on the cusp of becoming a mid-sized business need to start hiring with a mid-sized business mentality.

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5 Workplace Trends to Watch Out For in 2017

Recruiting.com

In 2017, a new series of workplace trends will emerge. These trends will impact the decisions that HR professionals make, and they will largely influence how HR departments function.

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HR Pro Playbook: How to Navigate Global Workforce Expansion with Confidence

Speaker: Daniel Grace & Audra Bright

Have you just been told you need to hire employees in another country? 🌎 That's a huge undertaking! It involves navigating a complex landscape of diverse regulations, cultural differences, legal requirements, and currencies. If anything goes wrong, you risk your company's financials, growth, and reputation. 📊 🌟 To help ensure a successful global expansion and mitigate potential non-compliance consequences, this exclusive webinar features Daniel Grace, International HR Con

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The Year In Review: “Thank You”

HRsoft

This is a time of year where many companies look back to appreciate all they have accomplished. And as I reflect on 2016, I too am reminded of so many great achievements we’ve had as a company – exciting sales growth, innovative product enhancements, and expansion into new markets. And while all of these are wonderful results to be proud of, what really comes to mind are the people behind them. .

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Overheard at #HRTX NYC

Recruiting Blogs

I spent last Thursday hanging out with a few dozens recruiting peeps at the HRTX event. Small events like these are great because you can make personal connections and get a deep dive into topics that relate to the everyday recruiter. Some pics are below but here are some things I jotted down I thought were interesting. Some recruiters from a large online retailer were there.

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19 Best Recruitment Tweets of 2016

MightyRecruiter

2016 was an epic year for hiring, and it showed on social media. Twitter was practically bursting with insightful, helpful, and humorous recruitment tweets – and we took the liberty of scouring the twittersphere to find some of the absolute best. Enjoy! Empathize with talent: don’t forget to put yourself in the jobseeker’s shoes. Saw a pigeon having a job interview earlier.

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